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Mortality among workers exposed to external ionizing radiation at a nuclear facility in Ohio

Journal Article · · JOM, Journal of Occupational Medicine; (United States)
OSTI ID:5159563
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  1. Occupational Medicine Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM (USA)
In a cohort mortality study of white men employed by the Mound Facility (1947 through 1979), observed deaths did not exceed those expected based on US death rates for the overall cohort or for the subcohort monitored for external ionizing radiation. Among the radiation-monitored subcohort, mortality for workers with cumulative radiation doses of at least 10 mSv was not significantly increased when compared with mortality for coworkers with cumulative doses of less than 10 mSv. A significant dose-response based on a Mantel-Haenszel test of trend was observed for all leukemias. However, when a death from chronic lymphatic leukemia, a type of leukemia generally not regarded as radiogenic, was removed from the analyses, the strength of the dose-response was reduced.
OSTI ID:
5159563
Journal Information:
JOM, Journal of Occupational Medicine; (United States), Journal Name: JOM, Journal of Occupational Medicine; (United States) Vol. 33:5; ISSN 0096-1736; ISSN JJOMD
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English